Ironically, while, I keep having to wipe away the blood covering my portfolio this has been a wonderful week in terms of informative articles, insightful tweets, and educational podcasts/vids. So, rather than lamenting short-term price action, delve right into to the ever-fascinating cryptosphere.
If invested and still plagued by doubt – ponder this:
Has BTC’s long-term outlook fundamentally changed?
If you hold only Alts – answer this:
Why?
Picks of the Week
This simple explanation of the current CPU congestion plaguing the EOS network and this jargon-free overview of Oracles and their critical role for the future development of blockchain networks. If it’s charts you are after – this site is a literal treasure trove!
Explaining BTC to ‘normal’ folks (recommended):
https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1196256830743142400
Miners it seems are feeling the pressure (recommended):
https://twitter.com/ColeGarnerBTC/status/1196607463593635840
Crypto writers providing value (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/MitchellMoos/status/1172590258954752000
Vitalik makes some optimistic promises for Ethereum (recommended):
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1196896377877471233
Maker DAI,SAI,DAI?
https://twitter.com/Ivshti/status/1195090264567820298
On LINK as an oracle provider:
https://twitter.com/DLTPandu/status/1195022468739719168
The good old days:
https://twitter.com/CryptoMichNL/status/1195623327559278592
On DeFi (recommended):
https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1191544850681942016
Just a little debt:
https://twitter.com/ObiWanKenoBit/status/1194673519017086976
Articles
Stanford digs into blockchain use-cases (highly recommended):
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/2019-blockchain-social-impact
Coinbase on Proof of Work:
https://blog.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-views-proof-of-work-security-f4ba1a139da0
Wyoming forges ahead with progressive crypto banking laws:
https://www.coindesk.com/wyomings-new-crypto-banking-law-could-defang-new-yorks-bitlicense
Just when you get to grips with PoW and PoS…along comes Proof of Authority (PoA):
https://cointelegraph.com/news/proof-of-authority-algorithm-use-cases-grow-from-pharma-to-games
Devs aplenty are focused on Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs):
https://www.coindesk.com/an-army-of-bitcoin-devs-is-battle-testing-upgrades-to-privacy-and-scaling
Key talking points from Dan Larimer at Blocksburg event:
https://www.eosgo.io/news/dan-larimer-key-topics-at-blocksburg-summit
The 2020s seen as an inflection point for the global economy:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-13/the-2020s-set-to-be-an-economic-turning-point/11699386
Podcast
Learning from the OneCoin scam (highly recommended):

YouTube
Always fun to run-out a BTC prediction:
A fix for the EOS CPU issue? Excellent overview of the situation at hand (highly recommended):
Explaining Oracles (highly recommended):
Learning while you laugh (recommended):
A look into a baseline encryption algorithm – Rijndael (recommended):
Infographics
BTC mining difficulty about to turn down:

EIDOS mining model not exactly helping EOS:

https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1193162367430987776/photo/1
Website / Utility
Bitcoin charts across a wide-array of metrics (highly recommended):

As you can see, plenty to take-in this week over and above the current price. As always, looking forward to your comments and suggestions.
Note on Sources:
Twitter & Reddit (cryptos current meta-brains) / Medium / Trybe / Hackernoon / Whaleshares / TIMM and so on/ YouTube / various podcasts and whatever else I stumble upon. The aim is a useful weekly aggregator of ideas rather than news. Though I try to keep the sources current – I’ll reference these articles and podcasts etc. as I encounter them – they may have been published just a couple of days ago or in some cases quite a bit earlier.
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